Since the Palestinian Authority was established it has systematically indoctrinated young and old to hate Israelis and Jews. Using media, education, and cultural structures that it controls, the PA has actively promoted religious hatred, demonization, conspiracy libels, etc. These are packaged to present Israelis and Jews as endangering Palestinians, Arabs, and all humanity. This ongoing campaign has so successfully instilled hatred that fighting, murder and even suicide terror against Israelis and Jews are seen by the majority of Palestinians as justified self-defense and as Allah’s will.

Throughout history bogus conspiracy accusations have been used to incite hatred, violence, and mass murder. The myriad conspiracy libels concerning Israel, Israelis and Jews are an integral part of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing hate promotion. PA libels claim that Israel conspires to infect Palestinians with AIDS, spread drug addiction, conspired and successfully murdered Arafat, and more. The PA’s goal has been to inculcate hatred to the degree that fighting and murdering Jews and Israelis will be glorified as heroic self-defense.

Libel: Israel murdered Arafat

When Yasser Arafat became sick and died in November 2004, the PA spread the libel that Israel poisoned Arafat. It is possible that the claim that Israel killed Arafat with poison was designed to connect Arafat with the Islamic tradition that Jews poisoned Muhammad, Islam’s Prophet:

“Aisha [wife of Muhammad] narrated: The Prophet in his ailment in which he died, used to say, "O 'Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar [Jewish tribe], and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 713)

Indeed, PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash made that very connection in a Friday sermon broadcast on PA TV. Al-Habbash preached that Arafat was murdered in the same way as Muhammad, repeating three times that Muhammad died from poison given to him in Khaibar - a town known for being Jewish in Islamic tradition:

"Yasser Arafat died a Martyr (Shahid) - we don't have the slightest doubt that they (i.e., the Jews/Israelis) killed him. One way or another, they killed him. Even Allah's Messenger [Muhammad] - they (i.e., the Jews) killed him with poison. When he was dying, he said to his wife Aisha: 'I feel the same pain I felt from the poison that I ate at Khaibar (Jewish village).' Poison that he ate at Khaibar. He continued to feel the pain until he died. 'I feel the same pain I felt from the poison that I ate at Khaibar.'" [Official Palestinian Authority TV, Nov. 8, 2013]

PA: Arafat died of AIDS
Countering the libel that Israel poisoned Arafat, Ahmad Jibril, Head of the PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command), stated frankly on Al-Manar TV that the PA leadership is aware that Arafat died of AIDS:

"When [Palestinian Chairman] Mahmoud Abbas came to Damascus, I asked: 'What was found in the [medical] inquiry of the death of brother Arafat?' One [of the group] said: 'Frankly, the French gave us the medical report, and the cause of Arafat's death was AIDS.'" [Al-Manar (Hezbollah TV) July 5, 2007]

This information about Arafat’s cause of death has never been released to the public.

To give credence to the libel that Israel killed Arafat, the PA concocted an international conspiracy in which Israel initiated the murder plan, the US approved it (with certain conditions), and the French doctors who treated Arafat concealed the truth in order to salvage the peace process.

Investigation into the cause of Arafat’s death
In 2012, the PA decided to take samples from Arafat's remains to test if he had been poisoned. In November 2013, a Swiss and a Russian team published the results of these tests. The Swiss team concluded that the tests were "coherent with a hypothesis of poisoning." However, a member of the team also stated that "our study did not permit us to demonstrate categorically the hypothesis of poisoning by polonium." The Russian report concluded that "there was insufficient evidence to support the theory that Yasser Arafat died in 2004 by polonium poisoning." [Reuters, Nov. 8, 2013]

The circumstances surrounding Arafat’s death remain unclear, and tests have yielded inconclusive results. In response to reports about Arafat being poisoned, The Independent wrote the following in 2013:

"A leading British biomedical scientist says it is 'highly unlikely' that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in a French hospital in 2004 from a lethal dose of radioactive polonium... Professor Nicholas Priest, who formerly headed the biomedical research unit of the Atomic Energy Authority in Britain, told The Independent that, while poisoning by polonium 'cannot be totally ruled out,' the symptoms were very different from those of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006... He pointed out that polonium would be naturally produced in the bones of anyone buried as a by-product of the bones absorbing lead from the soil, a point, he said, that 'the authors of the report understand but the journalists do not'... Professor Priest said it was 'far too dangerous and scientifically unjustified' to calculate how much polonium was in Arafat's body on the basis of 'such tiny concentrations of polonium.'"

In March 2015, three French judges ruled that "it has not been demonstrated that Mr. Yasser Arafat was murdered by polonium-210 poisoning." The French prosecutor stated that there was "not sufficient evidence of an intervention by a third party who could have attempted to take his life." [France 24, Sept. 2, 2015] The French prosecutor also explained that the polonium and lead found in Arafat’s grave were “of an environmental nature.” [Jerusalem Post, March 17, 2015]

Despite these results denying any poisoning, the PA continues to blame Israel for Arafat’s death without any proof or backing for this claim.

Official PA TV program The Philosophy of Patience, on former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat’s death

Official PA TV narrator: "A series of operations (i.e., terror attacks) were carried out, and Israel dealt with them through intensive pursuit and nearly caught Yasser Arafat in Nablus. When they entered the room where he was, the bed was still warm and the tea kettle boiling. Israel continued to pursue him until it murdered him with poison in 2004 in his headquarters in Ramallah."Click to view video
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Excerpt of an op-ed by Muwaffaq Matar, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council and regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: “The day that Mahmoud Abbas overcame Trump’s arrogance”
“[US President Donald] Trump’s representative at the [UN] Security Council [US Ambassador to the UN] Nikki Haley said in these words: ‘Palestinian [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas insulted US President Donald Trump when he opposed Washington’s role in the peace process (sic., Haley said Abbas insulted Trump in a speech in which he said: “May your house be destroyed!”).’… We must not forget a most grave matter, which is that the words of Haley and Trump will be a sort of beginning of an organized and planned attack against President Mahmoud Abbas, which reminds us of the attack against [former PA] President Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, may his memory be blessed, that preceded his assassination by Israeli poison… They are liable to harm President Mahmoud Abbas, as they did President Yasser Arafat, but who told them that a Palestinian leader who is as great as the homeland is afraid to die for the freedom of the people and the liberation of the land? They are indeed arrogant.”Click to view bulletin

Posted text: “The attack against [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas has many fronts, and they are all paving the way to one goal: The attempt to steal the popular support from him in preparation for his besiegement, and if they can also kill him, they will not hesitate to do so! After all, they already killed [former PA President] Yasser Arafat before him…
Khalil Nazzal
Fatah Movement Secretary in Warsaw”Click to view bulletin

Official PA TV, on the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat

TV host: "What do you want to tell us?"Boy: "About Yasser Arafat..."
Palestinian boy Adnan: "When he – they lifted the siege – when they came before he died – the Jews put poison in his food, and then he died."Official PA TV host: "Bravo! That is very important information. Arafat was poisoned to death. Correct, his food was poisoned and he died as a Martyr. Bravo, very clever, my friend Adnan."Click to view video

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, special program for the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat
Official PA TV host: “Of course we will not forget that all these years an open issue has remained regarding the murder of late Martyr [Yasser Arafat]. Naturally all the signs show that Israel is the one that assassinated and murdered [PA] President Yasser Arafat in some way, when it reached him and poisoned him. But this issue remains on the agenda until Israel is put on trial and gives an accounting for this crime that led to the Martyrdom-death of President Yasser Arafat.”Click to view videoClick to view bulletin
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Excerpt of an op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Arafat who remains among us”
“Thirteen years have passed since the death of leader [and] symbol [former PLO and PA Chairman] Yasser Arafat. They forced him to vacate the scene and poisoned him (see note below –Ed.). The ones who were responsible for his treatment in France did not find the necessary antidote for his recovery from the premeditated murder, which was committed by the leaders of the Israeli ethnic cleansing state… [Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon and the heads of his colonialist leadership are the ones who poisoned the Palestinian national symbol and murdered him, with a green light from the US.”Click to view bulletin

Official PA TV News, special broadcast of the central rally in Gaza to mark the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat

Official PA TV newsreader: “In an announcement on the 13th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death (Istish’had) of commander Yasser Arafat, the [Palestinian] National Council (i.e., the legislative body of the PLO)... [stated] that it will remain tall and loyal to the blood of the Martyrs (Shahids) and the sacrifices of the prisoners and wounded, while again holding Israel fully responsible for the crime of Arafat’s murder.”
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Headline: "Nasser Al-Qidwa: Israel is politically and criminally responsible for the murder of Arafat"
"Fatah Movement Central Committee member, Director of the Yasser Arafat Institution, [and Fatah Commissioner of Information, Culture, and Ideology] Nasser Al-Qidwa said that 13 years after the assassination of leader [and] symbol [PLO and PA Chairman] Yasser Arafat, Israel’s full political and criminal responsibility for the assassination of Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat shouldn’t be diminished – especially in the shadow of the clear and repeated Israeli statements that demanded the removal of Martyr Yasser Arafat from the Palestinian political arena."Click to view bulletin
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Headline: "The 17th anniversary of the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005)"
"Martyr [former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser] Arafat was accused of not making concessions that could lead to the signing of an agreement that outlined the character of the independent Palestinian state. On Thursday afternoon, Sept. 28, 2000, confrontations were recorded between [Palestinian] worshippers and young angry people and the occupation police, its border guard, and its special forces, which broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque plaza in order to guard its defilement by the leader of the extremist Likud party, [later Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon, and a number of right-wing people from his party… The occupation escalated the type of confrontations, and its airplanes killed a prominent leader in the Fatah Movement, Hussein Abayat (i.e., terrorist, involved in numerous attacks), on Nov. 9, [2000,] after his car was blown up by rockets in Bethlehem… Later the rate of Israeli assassinations - including most of the Palestinian factions and their commanders - increased, the most prominent being the assassination of Yasser Arafat with poison (see note below –Ed.) after laying siege to his headquarters in Ramallah."Click to view bulletin
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Al-Arabiya TV, interview with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Foreign Affairs and International Relations Nabil Shaath on the Polical Memoirs program

Al-Arabiya TV host : “Did [Yasser Arafat] die due to the consequences of the [Israeli] siege, or was he killed by poison during the siege?” PA Chairman Abbas’ advisor Nabil Shaath: “No, the Israelis killed him with poison. I have no doubt of that, not even a millionth of a doubt!” TV host: “Why are you so certain? Do you have information?” … Nabil Shaath: “…All food came through the Israelis. They besieged him from outside. Every cup of water came through the Israelis. Every pill of medicine… You can check the water before you give it to him… You can check the food, but the medicines?”Click to view videoClick to view bulletin
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Official PA TV program The Best Home, with PA Minister of Education and Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam as guest on the show

Palestinian girl: “On the occasion of Arafat's death, I wrote a poem and I would like to read it:
Where are you, Arafat?
The treacherous occupier killed you
In order to destroy and take over this land
They poisoned you and thought they had killed you
They did not know that all [our] people love you and follow your path
So that we will liberate Palestine
We will always stand firm until all of Palestine is liberated
Millions of Martyrs are marching towards Jerusalem”PA TV host: “Bravo!”

When Yasser Arafat died in November 2004, the PA spread the libel that Israel poisoned and murdered him. The circumstances surrounding Arafat’s death remain unclear but medical investigations have disproven the claims that he was poisoned. Despite results denying any poisoning, the PA continues to blame Israel for Arafat’s death without any proof or backing for this claim.

Visual: PA Minister of Education Sabri Saidam was a guest on the show.

Palestinian girl: “On the occasion of Arafat's death, I wrote a poem and I would like to read it:
Where are you, Arafat?
The treacherous occupier killed you
In order to destroy and take over this land
They poisoned you and thought they had killed you
They did not know that all [our] people love you and follow your path
So that we will liberate Palestine
We will always stand firm until all of Palestine is liberated
Millions of Martyrs are marching towards Jerusalem.” PA TV host: “Bravo!” Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Note: When Yasser Arafat died in November 2004, the PA spread the libel that Israel poisoned and murdered him. The circumstances surrounding Arafat’s death remain unclear but medical investigations have disproven the claims that he was poisoned. Despite results denying any poisoning, the PA continues to blame Israel for Arafat’s death without any proof or backing for this claim.

Excerpt of an op-ed by Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily
“At this opportunity, I remind [you] that the national leader, symbol Yasser Arafat – whose office in Ramallah was besieged by the Israeli occupation army for over two years (i.e., during Operation Defensive Shield) and afterwards [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon assassinated him with poison (sic., claims that Arafat was poisoned have been disproven by medical examinations) – underwent a political assassination prior to that.”

Operation Defensive Shield - a large Israeli military operation in April 2002 in response to the many suicide bombings during PA terror campaign (the second Intifada, 2000-2005). Israel put Arafat under siege and invaded six of the largest West Bank cities in an attempt to destroy the terror infrastructure.

Headline: “Dr. Amal Hamad: Whoever holds on to his Fatahness today, it is as if he is holding on to the embers”
“[Fatah’s Lebanese] Al-Quds magazine met with Fatah Movement Central Committee member Dr. Amal Hamad for an open interview about marking the anniversary of Martyr (Shahid) [Yasser] Arafat[’s death], and the situation in the Gaza Strip in everything regarding the Seventh [Fatah] Conference.” …Q: “What point has been reached in the investigation into the death as a Martyr of [former PA] President Arafat?”Fatah Movement Central Committee member Dr. Amal Hamad: “I have no information other than what was said by [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas during the rally to mark the anniversary, and that is that there are a number of signs and proof that they have information. The issue is a central and important issue that will continue until it is proven exactly who the hand [behind Arafat’s death] and the instrument of implementation were. We understand that the one who gave the orders was the Israeli occupation, but we just need to expose the instrument of implementation, and that is the mission of the investigative committee.”Q: “President Mahmoud Abbas said in his speech on the anniversary of the death as a Martyr of President Arafat: ‘I will not end my life with a renouncement or a sale’ – are these signs that the president’s life is in danger?”Amal Hamad: “…President Abbas said ‘No’ to the Americans, the Arabs, and the Israelis and maintained the basic principles. Therefore, it would not be strange if those who tried to kill Martyr Yasser Arafat would try to harm President Abbas, who maintained the same basic principles and will continue on the same path of his friend, Yasser Arafat.”

Official PA TV program State of Politics, hosting Fatah Advisory Council member Ahmed Abd Al-Rahman

Fatah Advisory Council member, Ahmed Abd Al-Rahman: "Regarding the fate of Yasser Arafat, it was after they [the Israelis] were unable to control him politically, in other words to cause him to make concessions and to submit. They did not find a solution other than eliminating him in this way... I say that they put poison into his ear a year earlier. A slow poison. And it began to work gradually and Yasser Arafat’s health deteriorated... [Former Israeli Prime Minister] Sharon said to [former US President] Bush: 'My brother, let us get rid of him and kill him' - about Arafat.
[Bush] told him: ‘Leave it to God.’
Sharon responded: 'But God needs helpers on earth.'
There was a journalist with Sharon who wrote a biography on Sharon, and this is what he noted (there are no records of such a conversation –Ed.)."Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Headline: “This is what Al-Qidwa said about the assassination of Yasser Arafat and his final days in the hospital”
“Fatah Central Committee member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute [for the Commemoration] of Yasser Arafat Dr. Nasser Al-Qidwa again accused Israel of its responsibility for the assassination of the late Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat (sic., these conspiracy theories have been refuted by international investigators), and said that he has already expressed this position more than once... This is in addition to the medical reports, including the French report, which said that pathology cannot explain this case, and conclusively pointed to poisoning (sic., French experts ruled out poisoning), alongside a long list of evidence that points to Israel… Likewise, he again emphasized that the nuclear material that the French report spoke of, plutonium (sic ., polonium-210), is a dangerous substance found only in the hands of nuclear states, and Israel is a nuclear state that possesses it.”Click to view bulletin

Official PA TV host: "We want to know who killed our late leader [Yasser Arafat]. Certainly it is the occupation, but we need proof in order to present the facts to the world.... [In 2002], the Israeli occupation entered every area of the West Bank and tried to kill many. It killed many of our [Palestinian] people... They killed Yasser Arafat, because until his final breath he defended the children of his people in war and in peace, diplomatically and also with a rifle, with a weapon..." Boy chants Arafat's slogans: "In spirit and blood we will redeem you Al-Aqsa!
In spirit and blood we will redeem you Al-Aqsa!
Millions of Martyrs are marching towards Jerusalem!
Millions of Martyrs are marching towards Jerusalem!" Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Official PA TV host: “We want to know who murdered our late leader [Yasser Arafat]. Certainly it is the occupation, but we need to be certain on this issue so that we can turn to the world with facts… They could even kill our [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas]…
[In 2002,] the Israeli occupation entered every area of the West Bank and tried to kill many, and it killed many of our [Palestinian] people (reference is to counter-terror Operation Defensive Shield, see note below –Ed.)…
In the end they killed him, Yasser Arafat, because up until his last breath he defended the children of his people in war and in peace, in other words both diplomatically and also with a rifle, with a weapon.”

Palestinian child: “In spirit and blood we will redeem you Al-Aqsa Mosque, in spirit and blood we will redeem you Al-Aqsa Mosque. In spirit and blood we will redeem you Al-Aqsa Mosque. Jerusalem, millions of Martyrs (Shahids) are marching towards you, Jerusalem, millions of Martyrs are marching towards you.”

Official PA TV host: “We will follow Yasser Arafat’s path and his promise, and also the path of our current president, leader Mahmoud Abbas, because he wants to see in all of us the future of Palestine, and he wants to struggle for all of us against the occupation’s army. He wants to struggle for us against Israel, which is growing in its military strength - but we are growing in our creativity and we will fight them before the entire world. Allah willing they will soon leave Palestine defeated.”

Headline: "Abbas Zaki: A treacherous hand helped the US and Israel assassinate the symbol Arafat"
"Fatah Central Committee member [and Fatah Commissioner for Arab and China Relations] Abbas Zaki revealed that there are a number of sources behind the assassination of the late [PA] President Yasser Arafat. Zaki, in a statement to the Hamas movement website 'Al-Risalah Net', said on Thursday evening [Nov. 10, 2016] that the US and Israel are the main suspects in the assassination of Arafat (this conspiracy theory has been refuted by international investigators, -Ed.), in addition to a 'treacherous' hand that is suspected in the crime, and they are trying to investigate it, according to him. He added: 'This matter is very complicated, particularly because the ones who stand behind it are Israel and the US who place great obstacles before the investigation in order to thwart reaching the truth and announcing it.' ...
[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas declared today [Nov. 10, 2016] that he knows the murderer of the late [PA] President Yasser Arafat, and emphasized that the result will soon be exposed 'and the Palestinian people will be astonished when it discovers who the perpetrators are.'"Click to view bulletin

Video called The 12th Anniversary of the Death as a Martyr of the Leader, the Symbol, broadcast on official PA TV on Nov. 8-9, 2016.

Song: "O bullets, let us hear the sound of joy, Fatah of the revolution will not die, and the Fatah member will repeat loudly with us: ’'Long live Fatah!'’’ Narrator: "The Fatah knight, creator of Al-Asifa (i.e., Fatah military unit), the engineer (i.e., Yasser Arafat). He stretched out his body as a bridge that we crossed towards victories that came one after the other... Pistol, rifle, and military uniform, with which the Palestinian revolution moved from place to place... With peace, politics, and resistance, with both the olive branch and the rifle, we entered the occupied land..." Narrator: "A new chapter in the story: The scheme. Israel and its allies found Arafat to be an insurmountable obstacle to their occupation aspirations and plans, and therefore they [laid] the siege and [committed] the murder by poison... The knight [Arafat] got off his horse, and on the back of the revolution rose another man: Mahmoud Abbas. He tried again, out of a belief in a just peace, but the same cover of injustice remained..." Narrator: "The plot is renewed and history repeats itself. The Palestinian president is again under attack..." Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Headline: "Liberman and the replacement game"Excerpt of op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily "Israeli Minister of Death (sic., Minister of Defense) Avigdor Liberman gave an extensive political interview to the Al-Quds newspaper that is published in Jerusalem on Monday, last Oct. 24 (sic., 2016(, in which he attacked [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas and called to 'replace him' with a new leadership…
Anyone who will go back and review what happened to the late president, the symbol Yasser Arafat (for who in a few days it will be 12 years since his death as a Martyr) [parentheses in source], can understand the Israeli method of dealing with the Palestinian leaders in general and with the decision makers in particular. There is no need to remind the Palestinians and the Israelis of the cruel campaign against the symbol Yasser Arafat, until he was brought for burial after being poisoned by the Israeli intelligence and the mercenary henchmen."Click to view bulletin

"Fatah Revolutionary Council member and Director-General of the [PA] Commission for Information and Culture [Muwaffaq Matar] said that the [Palestinian] national project is being subjected to an assassination attempt in three stages, and warned against the political assassination operation, after which will come the physical assassination of [PA] President and Commander-in-Chief Mahmoud Abbas as part of the preparation for the assassination of the spirit of the national project…
He added and warned of the dangers of the second stage that has also already begun, with the talk about the legitimacy of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, and noted that it is liable to be a political assassination operation, after which will come a physical assassination. Likewise, he mentioned the signs preceding the assassination of the leader, president, and symbol Yasser Arafat (That Israel assassinated Arafat is a common Palestinian libel and claim that has been disproven –Ed.)…"Click to view bulletin

Headline: "Will Israel repeat the scenario of the assassination of Arafat with [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas?"
"Fatah Movement Spokesman Osama Al-Qawasmi said: 'The Israeli statements regarding President Abbas are most dangerous and testify to an Israeli plot in the region and exploitation of the situation in order to eliminate Abbas politically and physically.' Al-Qawasmi added in an exclusive interview with [independent Palestinian news agency] Donia Al-Watan that Israel's repeated statements that President Abbas is an obstacle to peace are part of its efforts to get rid of him... He clarified that Israel considers Abbas a strategic danger to its ideas and intentions, and emphasized that Fatah views with full severity the attempts to repeat what happened with the late Yasser Arafat and the use of the same means in the elimination attempts…
PLO Executive Committee member [and Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)] Ahmed Majdalani... clarified in an exclusive statement to Donia Al-Watan that Israel is striving to repeat the scenario of the assassination of the late Yasser Arafat with President Mahmoud Abbas, and noted that the occupation government is striving to politically assassinate Abbas and to blacken his good name in preparation for his physical elimination."Click to view bulletin

Headline: “Zaki: An Israeli injection is what caused the disease of fighter Na’im Al-Shawamreh and his death as a Martyr”
“Fatah Central Committee member [and Fatah Commissioner for Arab and China Relations Abbas Zaki] said: ‘The battle with the occupation is open, and we must not let internal matters distract us from the struggle with it.’ He revealed that the occupation authorities caused the death of released prisoner Na’im Al-Shawamreh as a Martyr (Shahid), after giving him an injection in the mouth four years ago which caused muscular dystrophy and led to his death as a Martyr.
Zaki revealed yesterday in an interview with Radio Mawtini that medical reports have indicated that this injection is life threatening. Based on these reports, he clarified that receiving this injection causes muscular dystrophy, and then the lifespan is limited to a period of four years. Zaki emphasized that this is what happened to Martyr Al-Shawamreh, and noted that this case already happened in the past with Martyr President Yasser Arafat (the reference is to libel that Israel poisoned Arafat –Ed.).’”Click to view bulletin

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Na’im Al-Shawamreh - was sentenced to life in prison for planting a bomb that killed Israeli policeman Yossi Hayoun in 1993. He became sick with muscular dystrophy and was released in December 2013 as one of the 104 terrorists Israel agreed to release to fulfill the PA's precondition for renewing negotiations. He died on Aug. 16, 2016.

Speech by Fatah Spokesman Osama Qawasmi on the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) Day in Lebanon, May 15, 2016Fatah Spokesman Osama Al-Qawasmi: “We say to our beloved brothers in Hamas, come to us and join the PLO, on the basis of clear rules: state and partnership and Jerusalem and democracy, and no revolutions here and there. We are one people and our land is one land, and those [Israel] who killed Yasser Arafat killed Ahmed Yassin [of Hamas] and [Fathi] Shaqaqi [of the Islamic Jihad] and Abu Ali Mustafa [of the Popular Front for ‎the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)].This is the belief of the Fatah Movement and it will never change.”

Ahmed Yassin - Founder and former head of the terrorist organization Hamas. The Hamas movement is responsible for numerous terror attacks and the deaths of hundreds of Israeli civilians.

Official PA TV program Children’s TalkOfficial PA TV host Walaa Battat asks a girl who drew Yasser Arafat: “What do you know about Yasser Arafat? You were not born yet when he died as a Martyr (Shahid). Did your father tell you a lot about him?Girl: “Yes.”Official PA TV host: “Very nice. What did he tell you about him?Girl: “Yasser Arafat wanted to fight in order to free Palestine, and suddenly the Jews killed him and he died as a Martyr.”Official PA TV host: “My dear, may Allah have mercy on his soul and on the souls of all our Martyrs. It is happening at the moment to all of our Martyrs. But he [Arafat] was the leader and the symbol... Yasser Arafat is a legend, a special man. His wish was to die as a Martyr, and he did indeed die as a Martyr. However, when the occupation understood that he would not give up on his great dream, which was the liberation of Palestine, unfortunately they killed him.”Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Official PA TV program Eight in the Evening, hosting Fatah Central Committee member Amal Hamad
Topic: Anniversary of the Fatah Launch (Intilaqa)Fatah Central Committee member Amal Hamad: “When Yasser Arafat said no [to Israeli proposals], Sharon said about him that there is no partner for peace, and decided to get rid of Yasser Arafat. Therefore, he used the means at his disposal. First he entered the Muqata’a, in the second stage he besieged Yasser Arafat, and in the third stage he acted against him and poisoned him, and Yasser Arafat died as a Martyr (Shahid). The same manner and style of speech is being used today against President Mahmoud Abbas.”Click to view bulletin

Intilaqa – "The Launch" of Fatah on Jan. 1, 1965, when it carried out its first terror attack against Israel, attempting to bomb Israel's National Water Carrier.

Headline: “Martyr Arafat is a role model for fighters, and a school for national unity”
“Fatah Spokesman in Europe Jamal Nazzal stated that the occupation state, which killed Yasser Arafat, would not be able to kill him in the souls of the young generation, and added that the popular uprising is the greatest proof of that… Secretary of Fatah’s Nablus branch, Jihad Ramadan stated that the fact that Hamas prevented the commemoration of Yasser Arafat’s anniversary (i.e., the day he died) is unfortunate, and added: ‘It is hard for us [to accept] that Yasser Arafat will be murdered twice, once by the Israeli occupation, and the second time by the Hamas movement in Gaza.”

Official PA TV program Palestine is BeautifulOfficial PA TV host: “After our visit to the grave of Martyr (Shahid) President Yasser Arafat, who was killed as a Martyr by the Israeli occupation in 2004, we went to visit the museum of Martyr [Arafat].”

Op-ed by Fatah Revolutionary Council member Bakr Abu Bakr, regular columnist for official PA daily: “I reiterate… five qualities of Yasser Arafat, who was killed twice – once by the swords of the Westerners and the adherents of the demonic Bible (i.e., the West and Israel), and a second time by the daggers of the modern-day Assassins and Kharijites (i.e., Hamas), who killed him simply because they couldn’t be him.”

Notes: Assassins – a militant Ismaili order active in 11th -13th century Iran, notorious for its assassinations of political rivals.
Kharijites – an early Muslim sect known for its intolerance toward other Muslims who opposed them, whom they considered infidels worthy of death.

Official PA TV program Panorama of the Hour:PA Parliament (Legislative Council) member Faisal Abu Shahla: “They [Israel] got to his [Yasser Arafat’s] body and succeeded in poisoning it. We will never forgive this [act] and will punish whoever is responsible, including Israel and its collaborators – that is, its tools.”

“Fatah spokesman Osama Al-Qawasmi said that recently, media attacks against [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas have increased in severity. On the one hand, Israel is conducting a virulent attack against the President, calling for his removal and considering him its only enemy, and inciter number one… At the same time, Hamas leaders have been aiding it in its attack… and opposing us, in complete coordination with [Israel’s] attack on the President and Fatah. Al-Qawasmi emphasized that the same exact thing had happened with the late Martyr (Shahid) leader Yasser Arafat, whom Hamas had attacked with all its might at every opportunity. Even when he was besieged in the Muqata’a (the PA Presidential Headquarters in Ramallah), and the occupation’s tanks were knocking on his bedroom door, and even when [Ariel] Sharon was calling for his removal, Hamas strove for and trumpeted the same goal. Now, they come and demand to know who Yasser Arafat’s murderers were, and we tell them: ‘All those who profited from the murder of Yasser Arafat are accused. You and Israel were the first ones to profit from [his death], and you should be investigated. You are not in the position to ask questions, because you are accused of conspiracy.’”

“Even as our people were commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of eternal leader Yasser Arafat with large popular rallies, Israeli personalities and institutions embarked on an unprecedented attack against [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas. This attack is to a large extent similar to the one experienced by the late President Yasser Arafat, who died in circumstances that are still obscure, despite the [Palestinian] public’s understanding that it was Israel that stood behind the planning of their leader’s quiet assassination.”

“Nasser Al-Qidwa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Commemoration of Yasser Arafat [and former PA Foreign Minister], said: ‘Ten entire years have passed since the Martyrdom (Shahada) of our founding leader Yasser Arafat, and we have not yet arrived at a Palestinian state, while the challenges and obstacles in [our] path have increased.’ He added: ‘Today, we must draw inspiration from Arafat’s legacy vis-à-vis Israel’s arbitrary policy – in Jerusalem in particular and in Palestine in general. Israel assassinated Arafat using polonium, and is still acting to damage his reputation in the eyes of the world.’ He noted that Israel’s assassination of President Arafat was not only meant to dispose of our people’s elected president, but also in order to damage the Palestinian enterprise and [our] unified identity, and to geographically divide the homeland.”

“Prisoner leader Marwan Barghouti called on the PA to restore the dignity of the resistance, officially adopt the movement to boycott the occupation, and defend Jerusalem from Judaization, out of loyalty and devotion to the historic heritage of Yasser Arafat. These statements were made in a letter from the prisoner leader [Barghouti] on the tenth anniversary of the assassination of founding leader Yasser Arafat. In his letter, Barghouti wrote: ‘The assassination of President Yasser Arafat was an official Israeli-American decision, [and occurred] after a continuous military and political siege that was aimed at torpedoing the blessed Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005) and dealing a blow to the resistance and the unity of the Palestinian people. There is no need for the inquiry teams and commissions of the past ten years to realize this fact.’"

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Official PA TV Live broadcast a speech by Nasser Al-Qidwa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Commemoration of Yasser Arafat and former PA Foreign Minister during the Arafat Prize distribution ceremony in Ramallah, in the presence of PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Nasser Al-Qidwa: “Israel assassinated Yasser Arafat using polonium-210. We hereby emphasize that we are discussing what to do in order settle the score with the criminals.”

Official PA TV program The State of Politics hosted Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi.Tawfiq Tirawi: “The security reports, the circumstances and the security evidence in our possession – we will continue the investigation, because all these data lead to the conclusion that President Yasser Arafat was poisoned and murdered by Israel. I can say that Israel is behind the assassination of Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, because it benefited most from President Yasser Arafat’s disappearance.”

[District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh Laila] Ghannam said that President Mahmoud Abbas, who is considered the captain of the Palestinian ship, was under severe attack by the extremist occupation government. She noted that the occupation’s threats and statements to the effect that there is no partner for peace are [made] in the same tone and with the same intent that the occupation government used shortly before it carried out its direct attack against Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat.”

By Muwaffaq Matar, regular columnist for the official PA daily
"This action (i.e., the kidnapping) is - if not a deliberate act on the part of Israel meant to achieve the goal described above (i.e., to weaken the PA) - a free gift to Israel from some group or regional power that shares a common goal with Israel: To convince large countries and friends of the Palestinian people to retract their recognition of the abilities of the Palestinian Security Forces, and to weaken these countries' faith in the possibility of the success of the two-state solution... Everyone knows that the Netanyahu government has used the disappearance of the three settlers [as an excuse] to conduct security operations the likes of which have not been seen in the Palestinian West Bank since the end of Operation Defensive Shield, which culminated in the siege of the Muqata'a (the PA Presidential Headquarters in Ramallah) and the poisoning of the leader President Yasser Arafat by the leadership of the occupation state."Click to view bulletin

Operation Defensive Shield - a large Israeli military operation in April 2002 in response to the many suicide bombings during PA terror campaign (the second Intifada). Israel put Arafat under siege and invaded six of the largest West Bank cities in an attempt to destroy the terror infrastructure.

Op-ed by Yahya Rabah – a columnist for the official PA daily.
“The eternal leader Yasser Arafat… was poisoned to death by the Israelis, after a siege on the Muqata’a (the [PA’s] Presidential Headquarters) [parentheses in source] that lasted three years.”

Op-ed by Yahya Yakhlif, head of the directorial council and editor in chief of the official PA daily
“And as I said [before], Yasser Arafat had been a target throughout the entire [period] he led the revolution and the PLO, and Israel made dozens of secret and overt attempts to assassinate him, from the moment he entered the territories occupied in 1967, through the attack on his central base in Al-Karameh, the Israel Air Force attack on his operational headquarters in Hammam Al-Shatt in Tunisia and other events which were not publicized, culminating in his [being under] siege and poisoning in the Muqata’a (the PA’s Presidential Headquarters).”

Al-Karameh - In 1968, Israeli army forces attacked the Al-Karameh village in Jordan, where Fatah terrorists were launching attacks on Israel. Arafat used the event for propaganda purposes, declaring the battle a great victory that erased the disgrace of the 1967 Six Day War defeat.Hammam Al-Shatt - In October 1985, Israel Air Force warplanes attacked the PLO headquarters in Hammam Al-Shatt near Tunis, in retaliation for the PLO’s hijacking of a yacht and murder of 3 Israeli tourists off the coast of Cyprus a few days previously. The attack destroyed the PLO headquarters and, according to Israeli sources, killed approximately 60 PLO members, including leaders of the group responsible for the murders of the Israeli tourists and several of Arafat's bodyguards. Arafat himself was not present at the time of the attack.

“At the end of its evening session in Kuwait yesterday [Jan. 19, 2014], the United Arab Parliament called on the Arab countries to fulfill their financial commitments to support the Palestinian budget…
In a speech to the Parliament, [former] Chairman of the Palestinian National Council (i.e., the legislative body of the PLO) Salim Al-Za'anoun… addressed the Palestinian leadership’s position, which rejects the pressure and threats of withholding aid in the event that [it] fail to comply with the proposals it has received – [threats] which included harming the permanent rights of our people, as well as the declarations and accompanying open threats from high-ranking Israeli officials against the life of President Mahmoud Abbas, which were similar to those that preceded the murder of Martyr (Shahid) President Yasser Arafat.”From WAFA, official PA news agency

Op-ed by Adel Abd Al-Rahman, regular ‎columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
‎“The crazy battle against President ‎Mahmoud Abbas is nothing new, but ‎operates according to a systematic plan ‎targeting all leaders who believe in peace. ‎This is because Israel is not interested in ‎the existence of rational Palestinian ‎leaders; rather, [Israel] wants demagogical ‎leaders it can continue to hide behind, to ‎enable it to shirk from the commitments of ‎the political settlement and to carry out its ‎plans for the destruction of the national ‎cause.‎
This is why, during the term of [former Israeli ‎Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon, it resorted to ‎getting rid of the leader and symbol Yasser ‎Arafat, using excuses lacking any ‎foundation. Unfortunately, the [George W.] ‎Bush administration conspired with the ‎Israeli government from the moment it ‎assumed power, and the coordination ‎between them merely strengthened after the ‎attack on the [Twin] Towers in September ‎‎2001. They loudly praised and lauded ‎President Mahmoud Abbas’ taking office in ‎‎2005, but when the head of the PLO held ‎fast to the national plan, the Arab Peace ‎Initiative, the legitimate international ‎decisions, the US Road Map and the ‎Annapolis decisions, they started laying ‘the ‎blame’ on him, saying he wasn’t ‘a partner ‎for peace’ and even described him as ‘more ‎dangerous’ than Arafat.”‎

"The Palestinians hastened to welcome the news of Sharon's death. Deputy-Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee Jibril Rajoub told [news] agency [Agence] France-Presse: 'Sharon committed crimes against the Palestinian people and he is a murderer and responsible for the murder of deceased leader Yasser Arafat.' He added: 'We wished for him to be put on trial before the [International] Criminal Court in The Hague for his crimes against the Palestinian people and its leaders... Sharon established the official terror network against our people and he is the hero of Israel's state terrorism crimes in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982.' In addition, he said that he [Ariel Sharon] 'is responsible for the murder of Arafat, of Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP] Abu Ali Mustafa and of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as well as for the murder attempt on Khaled Mashaal, head of the Political Bureau of Hamas and on many Palestinian and Arab leaders.'
Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein, who was a PLO military commander in 1982, said: 'Sharon is a war criminal and a murderer and was directly involved in a number of massacres carried out against the Palestinians, beginning with the massacres at Deir Yassin and Qibya, continuing with the Sabra and Shatila massacre and ending with his final crime, which is the murder of Yasser Arafat... I wished for the day to come on which we would put Sharon on trial before an international court but now he is dead. I'm not sorry for his death and the death of murderers and criminals like him, whose crimes still live on today in our blood.'"Click to view bulletin

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PA TV did a live broadcast from a conference on national identity, in memory of Yasser Arafat. Deputy-Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee Jibril Rajoub:
“Certainly, there is someone who transferred this poisonous material [to Arafat], but the [person who is] responsible, and who we’ll be going after, is [then-Israeli PM Ariel] Sharon and his gang. This Israeli occupation tried in the past and continues to try to injure the Palestinian [national] leadership in order to impose a [different] leadership that will agree to compromises.”

PA TV News broadcast a report about a photo exhibit of Arafat in Jerusalem marking the anniversary of Arafat’s death. A boy at the exhibit: “We love Arafat very much. He is precious to us. He died of poisoning. Israel poisoned him because of his cause - he is Palestinian. They are occupiers. They don’t want us to live in peace [or] as free people.”Click to view video

of the Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub: "It's obvious that Israel wasn't alone [in killing Arafat]; the US was there. That fool known as [George] Bush took away Yasser Arafat's protection and gave [Israeli PM] Sharon the green light to liquidate Yasser Arafat."Click to view video

PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
“Yasser Arafat died a Martyr – we don’t have the slightest doubt that they (i.e., the Jews/Israelis) killed him. One way or another, they killed him. Even Allah’s Messenger [Muhammad] - they (i.e., the Jews) killed him with poison. When he was dying, he said to [his wife] Aisha: ‘I feel the same pain I felt from the poison that I ate at Khaibar (Jewish village).’ Poison that he ate at Khaibar. He continued to feel the pain until he died. ‘I feel the same pain I felt from the poison that I ate at Khaibar...’ Be satisfied, oh mighty one, oh Martyr Arafat, that you were killed the same way Allah’s Messenger was killed... We have no doubt, and I don’t think there is a single one among us who has the slightest doubt that Arafat was killed. Deep inside we all know who killed him.”Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Headline: “Citing a French newspaper –Lebanese [newspaper] Al-Diyar: ‘Arafat was murdered by a chemical substance sprayed on his pillow’”
“The Lebanese Al-Diyar newspaper stated that the investigations in France [regarding Arafat’s death], as reported by a French newspaper, found that he was poisoned. [The newspaper also stated] that the French physicians determined the type [of the poison] and that it is a chemical substance. The newspaper added that French authorities refused to publish this matter so as to avoid a conflict with the Israelis. Therefore, former President of France, Jacques Chirac decided to leave the matter as one of France’s biggest secrets.
Military and security circles believe that a simple, colorless and odorless chemical substance was sprayed on the pillow on which Arafat slept and that this is the reason the poison entered his ear and skin pores.
The newspaper noted that France will not publish any findings but will leave the role of exposing the truth to the court and will only submit the blood test data and pictures, without providing information about the chemical substance, due to Israeli pressure.”

Headline: “Erekat: ‘Lieberman calls to get rid of President Mahmoud Abbas and we have written proof of this’”
“Member of PLO Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat said: ‘Israel intends to get rid of President Mahmoud Abbas, as was the case with President Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, for sticking to his principles. This is proven by handwritten letters from Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman.
In an interview to Mawtini Radio, Erekat said: ‘Every Palestinian who adheres to East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders, to the return of the refugees and to the release of the prisoners – Israel does not see him as a partner, [believes that he] does not want peace and thinks that he must be gotten rid of by any means possible.’ He emphasized that there is concrete proof, among it, letters written in Lieberman’s handwriting.”

From an article by regular columnist Adel Abd Al-Rahman:
“The difficulty that emerges from the [common] policy of the various Israeli political forces, especially the right-wing forces, shows that the country of ethnic cleansing is descending towards fascism and towards triggering war in the region. [Israel] is substantiating its colonialist nature, it being no more than a new Crusade against the region, so that it is impossible for it (i.e., Israel) to co-exist and blend with the countries of the region and their peoples. Therefore, the Arab nations must… profoundly reassess the Arab peace initiative that Israel killed as soon as it was announced at the 2002 Beirut summit, when it [Israel] invaded the towns and villages of the [West] Bank, laid siege to leader Yasser Arafat and later assassinated him by poisoning."

Part of the fourth episode of the 2011 Palestinian-produced documentary “Arafat” was broadcast on PA TV again in January 2013 as an introduction to a PA ceremony. Narrator: “Wondering about the nature of Arafat’s disease continued. Did he really fall ill, or had Israel managed to poison him?”Nabil Shaath: “In my opinion he died of poisoning, and I have no doubt about this. The problem, of course, is how and who brought the poison, and how was it administered? Those are the questions we have.”

Ceremony host: "Blessings to Yasser Arafat, and here are messages from the children of Palestine." Boy: "I was very, very sad when Arafat died as a Shahid (Martyr), because he was a good man and he was a fighter. He did things through struggle, he participated in the struggle and did not make peace and so on. He wanted to fight."Boy 2: "Yasser Arafat was a very, very important president. He stood up to all the enemies and was not afraid of anyone. And anyone who approached - he managed to stop him. All the Jews and the Israelis and the people who are against us, were afraid of him. When he died, he died of poisoning."Girl: "I say that he died from poisoning by the Jews. That's what I say."Boy 3: "Arafat used to say: "They want me dead, they want me prisoner, but I say to them: Martyr! Martyr! Martyr!"Girl 2: "He [Arafat] was our former president. He was under siege in Ramallah, and when he was under siege we were very upset. The Jews poisoned him and I hate them very much. Allah will repay them what they deserve."Boy 4: "He [Arafat] died from poisoning by the Jews. Well, I don't know what he died from, but I know it was by the Jews."Boy 5: "They destroyed his whole house and he was left in one room and in the end the Jews poisoned him and blamed someone else." Click here to view
Note: This film originally aired on Nov. 10, 2009, the 5th anniversary of Arafat's death. PA TV chose to rebroadcast it on Nov. 10, 2010, Nov. 11, 2011, and Nov. 11, 2012, on the 6

Headline: "Emphasized that occupation activities enforce apartheid facts on the ground – Erekat accuses Israel of incitement to kill the President [Abbas]"
"Erekat ( PA chief negotiator) described [Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor] Liberman's statements as 'impudent', and said that their aim was to incite to the murder and physical annihilation of President Abbas, as was the case with the late Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, who was murdered for no wrongdoing… Erekat declared again that the Palestinian Authority is not opposed to negotiations, and that it is prepared to return to the negotiating table on condition that settlement [activity] is stopped, that recognition is granted to a Palestinian state on the '67 borders, and that the prisoners are released."

Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist for official PA daily:
“It is certain that the Palestinian leadership… and all sectors of the nation will support exposing the truth about the criminal assassination of the leader and symbol, Arafat, that was perpetrated by the Israeli apartheid state and its agents.
The leadership will certainly provide whatever is needed to expose the truth to the [Palestinian] people, the Arabs, and the entire world, in order to lay responsibility on the Israeli organized-terror state and on the US for poisoning the eternal leader, Arafat. This is because Bush, Jr. and Sharon were partners in the assassination and the physical elimination of the former President.”

Op-ed by PLO Ambassador to India and regular columnist for official PA daily Adli Sadeq: “No one doubted that the national leader, Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, died of poisoning. There are dozens of indications – revealed by statements, contacts, and [published] positions – that at an early stage informed us that the occupation [forces] had decided to assassinate him.”

Op-ed by Wael Barghouti:
“Concerning the Martyr (Shahid) death of Yasser Arafat, it is important to discover the substance that they used to poison him, but even more important to discover who brought the substance into the [Ramallah] headquarters and put it in the leader’s personal belongings – but it won’t be at all hard to figure out who it was that supplied the substance, especially since the former head of the Israeli Security Services, Avi Dichter, was quick to deny yesterday that Israel was responsible for the assassination, when he told Israel Army Radio that Israeli ‘security’ had not touched Arafat’s food. As the old saying goes, “a stolen hat burns on the head of the thief (i.e., a thief cannot ignore his guilt, and will deny it.)”

Columnist for official PA daily Adel Abd Al-Rahman:
"There must be an acknowledgement, in a responsible manner – and the Palestinian leadership should be the first to admit – that the Oslo Accords, despite positive sparks here and there, were not accords that reflect the Palestinian aspiration… They were like a great minefield in which the leadership placed itself and the people. Proof of this is that since their declaration in 1993 and their signing on Sept. 13, 1993 at the White House, the Palestinian people has not taken a single step forward. On the contrary: in 2002, [then-Israeli Prime Minister] Sharon carried out a clear war crime when he re-occupied the West Bank, and killed the leader of the Palestinian people [Yasser Arafat], along with others."

During Hamas leader Haniyeh's visit to Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei insulted Arafat for reasons related to the Oslo Accords. Haniyeh did not respond to the insult.
"In a press release published yesterday, Fatah spokesman Ahmed Asaf denounced … the 'lies uttered by the Iranian [Ayatollah] Khamenei concerning the eternal Martyr (Shahid), Yasser Arafat, in the presence of Ismail Haniyeh.' The [Fatah] movement denounced Haniyeh's silence in the face of Khamenei's accusations against the leader of the Palestinian revolution and resistance, Yasser Arafat… The press release said: 'Khamenei and the one who refrained from saying the truth to his face, Ismail Haniyeh, know that the Israeli occupation assassinated the leader of the Palestinian people because of his insistence on our people's rights and his adherence to the legitimate resistance to occupation and settlement, until he died as a Martyr following a three-year siege on his presidential quarters.'…

The article starts with general information about the establishment of Fatah, the start of its armed activity, and the attempt to sabotage the Israeli National Water Carrier.
Headline: "47th anniversary of beginning of Fatah activity"
“In the wake of the absence of Yasser Arafat, who almost certainly died from a poisonous substance which the Israeli Intelligence managed to introduce into his body, Mahmoud Abbas was appointed the head of the movement."

PA TV broadcast of main ceremony marking seventh anniversary of Arafat's death.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yasser Arafat Institute Nasser Al-Qidwa:
"We shall neither tire nor grow weary, especially at ceremonies of loyalty and renewal of the commitment and renewal of the demand to receive an answer concerning the Martyrdom death of our commander [Arafat], who was poisoned by Israel. We are convinced of this, but we want proof, and we want to submit the murderers and criminals to justice."

PA TV program Topic of the Day. Topic: Anniversary of Arafat's death. Guests: Chairman of the Yasser Arafat Institute, Nasser Al-Qidwa, and Deputy Secretary of the Popular Front, Abd Al-Rahim Malouh.
Al-Qidwa: "There is a belief among all of us – among the Palestinian people and, I think, also among a large portion of the Arab nations – that Yasser Arafat died as a Shahid (Martyr) as a result of being poisoned by the Israeli side. That is a belief which, to tell the truth, is widely held among us, and we have said this many times. There are many proofs of this, starting with the Israeli actions against the late president, the decision of the Israeli government to bring down Yasser Arafat, and the reiteration of this decision on more than one occasion, the imposition of the bloody military siege on him for a long time, and so on. Also, there are the medical reports, and specifically the French medical report, which give clear indications in this direction, even if it does not provide us with decisive proof."

Live broadcast of ceremony in Ramallah marking seventh anniversary of Arafat's death, organized by Yasser Arafat Institute. Nasser Al-Qidwa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yasser Arafat Institute: "Today, we are watching together an obligatory old-new artistic performance, which once again raises a painful question: How did Arafat die as a Shahid (Martyr)? We raise it again because we have not yet received the clear-cut response to which our nation is entitled, and it is our obligation to obtain it. We repeat that we are convinced of Israel's responsibility for poisoning Yasser Arafat, and we acknowledge that we are unable to obtain this clear-cut answer. But we promise to continue to act towards this aim [to find the answer]."

Head of the Palestinian National Council, Salim Al-Za'anoun, on President Abbas' speech at the UN. He first stated that the speech brought the Palestinian cause into the heart of every free person, then began to demonize Israel: "Israel has killed, and still kills, anyone who believes in peace. It killed Rabin, afterwards it killed the Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat, following a siege that went on for years. We say to the President: We are all potential Shahids, and we shall continue on the path that you signaled in your speech."

PA TV news report on panel discussion held by the Jordanian Writers' Association. The panel discusses a book by media personality and writer Haitham Zu'aiter, Moments of My Life in Palestine.Zu'aiter: "I had an opportunity to visit Palestine. I wrote down these testimonies and memories, as well as this story, over 432 pages, including many sections and many chapters, which recount most of the [major] Palestinian milestones, from the assassination of President Yasser Arafat – in great detail – to the operation (i.e., terror attack) of Shahida (Martyr) Dalal Mughrabi, and the Palestinian achievements and discoveries, and how Palestine entered the Guinness Book of Records through its achievements in history, culture, literature, and heritage."

Headline: “During speech at the Ninth Annual Conference of Palestinians in Europe, Barghouti: the national reconciliation agreement [between Fatah and Hamas] paves the way for freedom, dignity, independence and return”
“Member of Parliament (Legislative Council) and Secretary General of the [Palestinian] National Initiative movement, Mustafa Barghouti, emphasized that the national reconciliation agreement paves the way to freedom, dignity, independence, and return. …Barghouti added that Israel, which assassinated Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat and Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, failed today, because we have restored to the people its spirit of national unity.”

"The special advisor to Yasser Arafat said Monday that he will soon release new information on the death of the late president. In an interview with Ma'an Radio, Bassam Abu Sharif said research conducted by British forensic experts had revealed that Arafat was poisoned with thallium. New information had also come to light, Abu Sharif said, adding that he would present it to an investigation committee. Abu Sharif said he had warned the president to remain alert for Israeli assassination attempts. In 2004, Arafat fell ill while besieged by the Israeli military in his Ramallah headquarters. He was flown to Paris for treatment and died at Percy Hospital on 11 November 2004. The Guardian newspaper quoted a medical report by French doctors identifying disseminated intravascular coagulation as the cause of the president's death. DIC is a secondary condition however, and the ultimate cause of death was never revealed. In the months preceding Arafat's death, Israeli officials had publicly contemplated assassinating the leader, fueling speculation that he was murdered."

Headline: “Produced from rare seaweed – Abu Sharif: President Arafat was assassinated using Thallium poison, a dangerous liquid with no color, smell or taste”
“Personal advisor to the late President Yasser Arafat, Basam Abu Sharif, has disclosed the results of an analysis (conducted over several months) concerning the type of poison used in the assassination of President Yasser Arafat. He said that these results were confirmed by the top criminal toxicologist in England.
He announced that the poison is called Thallium, and is a strange poison which is not in use and whose presence, effects and symptoms are difficult to detect. He added, ‘This dangerous poison is a colorless liquid, with no smell or taste. It is produced from rare seaweed, and may be put into water or food without detection, or injected with a needle into arteries, veins or human skin.’ He said that British and European toxicologists are not familiar with this poison, but the criminal toxicologist identified it. It is very effective, and no antidote can stop it five hours after it is injected or consumed. He emphasized that the expert who carried out the analysis had confirmed that this poison gradually destroys the body’s systems one after another (the liver, kidneys, lungs, and then brain) until it kills it.
He added that the time period needed to kill someone using this poison varies from person to person, depending on his build, his age, and the ability of his bodily systems to hold out. He noted that this period varies from two to eight months, giving criminals the opportunity to distance themselves from the scene of the crime.”

Boy 1: "Father, father the Elder )Arafat). Why did it happen this way? Why did it happen this way? Death chose you, and you did not complete the path." Boy 2: "Do not ask why it happened this way. Yesterday they (i.e., the Jews) crucified Jesus; today they poisoned the father, the Elder (Arafat)." Click here to view

Note: PA TV originally aired the cultural event on June 4, 2010 and rebroadcast it on December 31, 2010.

Film: ”A Few Meters’ Distance,” on the last part of Arafat’s life
Bassam Abu Sharif, former advisor to Arafat: “The certain information that I have is that [Israeli Minister of Defense at the time, Shaul] Mofaz spoke with [former Israeli Prime Minister] Sharon as follows: ‘This is the chance to be rid of Yasser Arafat.’ Sharon said to him, ‘[Remember that] you promised!’ [Sharon] was silent for a moment, looked at him [and said], ‘Only if it will be carried out in such a way that there won’t be an accusing finger pointed at Israel.’ Quote unquote. That is exactly what was said. When this reached me, I wrote a letter to Yasser Arafat, in which I warned him that they wanted to murder him, and specifically by poisoning.’” [Shows the alleged letter that he wrote to Arafat –ed.]

Note: This segment was originally aired on November 9, 2010 and was rebroadcast on November 10 and 11, 2010.

Film: ”A Few Meters’ Distance,” on the last part of Arafat’s life
Former PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei:
“The moment you attach to someone the blame for the death of Yasser Arafat, it carries a heavy price; therefore, one must not say something that is not certain.”

Note: This segment was originally aired on November 9, 2010 and was rebroadcast November 10 and 11, 2011.

Live broadcast of main ceremony marking 6th anniversary of Arafat’s death:
Nasser Al-Qidwa, head of the Institute for Commemoration of Arafat:
“We shall not forget Yasser Arafat’s death as a Shahid (Martyr), and we will not tire of insisting on the need to obtain the final piece of evidence of the assassination of our leader, of his poisoning. We were convinced of this from the outset, and we emphasized Israel’s responsibility in every way, but we want a clear proof, and we will obtain it. We promise this to you…
We promise you that we shall remain loyal to Yasser Arafat’s path of struggle and giving, until we achieve our national objectives, for the sake of which he died as a Shahid (Martyr). We uphold the memories of our Shahids and send greetings to our heroic prisoners in all the prisons of the occupation [Israel]. We ask for mercy upon the soul of Yasser Arafat, father of Palestinian nationalism, and our promise is that we shall continue to follow his path.”Kais Abd Al-Karim, Deputy Secretary General of the Democratic Front:
“Once again we promise that we shall continue in the path that he paved and watered with his blood and the blood of the tens of thousands of Shahids (Martyrs).”

“[Arafat] didn’t suffer from any of the diseases of old age, such as blood pressure, diabetes, or atherosclerosis. The President did not suffer from any illness. The acute deterioration of his death in this rapid manner proves that he died of poisoning, in addition to the severe thrombocytopenia [“thin blood”], which I saw with my own eyes at the hospital in Paris. Even after his death, this thin blood continued. This proves [corrects himself] the poison proves that he was poisoned; extremely thin blood. Poison is the sole factor that prevents the clotting of blood.”

Note: This program was originally aired on Nov. 9, 2010, and then rebroadcast Nov. 10 and 11, 2010

Film: ”A Few Meters’ Distance” on the last part of Arafat’s lifeFormer Supreme Religious Justice, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi:
“[Arafat] didn’t suffer from any of the diseases of old age, such as blood pressure, diabetes, or atherosclerosis. The President did not suffer from any illness. The acute deterioration of his death in this rapid manner proves that he died of poisoning, in addition to the severe thrombocytopenia [“thin blood”], which I saw with my own eyes at the hospital in Paris. Even after his death, this thin blood continued. This proves- [corrects himself] the poison proves that he was poisoned; extremely thin blood. Poison is the sole factor that prevents the clotting of blood.”

“Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yasser Arafat Institute, Nasser Al-Qidwa, said yesterday that the museum of the late Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat, which is now operative, represents the stages of the national memory. Speaking to WAFA, he said that the museum will be completed before the next anniversary of the death of the Shahid Yasser Arafat. … Al-Qidwa repeated the clear Palestinian position concerning the assassination of Yasser Arafat. He said, ‘We are convinced that Israel assassinated President Arafat, and are certain that we will obtain conclusive evidence to prove this.’”

At the anniversary of the outbreak of the PA’s five-year terror campaign (Intifada) a PA TV reporter said:
“[Israel] laid siege to the Presidential residence again and again. The battle was ignited and the confrontation became increasingly frequent. Eventually, one of the bloodiest incidents was the assassination of the eternal President, Yasser Arafat, in 2004.”

Report on the anniversary of the outbreak of what the Palestinians term “the Al-Aqsa Intifada”: Reporter: “[Israel] laid siege to the Presidential residence again and again. The battle was ignited and the incidents of confrontation became increasingly frequent. Eventually, one of the bloodiest incidents was the assassination of the eternal President, Yasser Arafat, in 2004.”

Khaled Mismar, member of the PLO's Palestinian National Council:
"[In 2003] Israel, with the support of the new American administration of President Bush, imposed an oppressive siege on our symbol, the late Yasser Arafat, until they got him with poison, since they weren't able to kill him using their tanks, which besieged his home in Ramallah. The details of the story are known to everyone, young and old, among our Palestinian people and throughout the world."

Nashat Al-Aqatsh, a lecturer at Bir-Zeit University, said while discussing the peace process:
"In the past [Israel claimed] no Palestinian partner existed, and they [Israel] killed the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat."

Sultan Abu Al-Einein, Member of the Fatah Central Committee: "They [Israelis] killed the Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat by poisoning, under the pretext of [fighting] terror."
Note: Sultan Abu Al-Einein spoke at an official Fatah-PLO ceremony for the anniversary of Arafat's death held in Beirut in Lebanon which was broadcast live on PA TV.Click to view

Nafa al-Hasan, political commentator and academic:
"The decision [by Israel] to assassinate was made at the most senior political level in Israel, as we saw with Abu Jihad [head of military wing of PLO] and Yasser Arafat and many others."

Muhammad Dahlan, MP and senior Fatah leader: "I think that we're at the end of a process of abuse of the [Fatah] movement. Israel started it with the destruction of the Fatah movement and the destruction of the Palestinian Authority and its institutions, and the killing of Chairman Yasser Arafat."Click here to view

PA TV news:
"Suha Arafat said, in a telephone interview to PATV, that the information conveyed by Kaddumi is baseless, tantamount to, as it were, a vindication of Israel for its responsibility for assassinating the Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat."

Yasser Abd-Rabbo, Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee: "The [PLO] Executive Committee believes that such statements [by Kaddumi] dishonor first and foremost our leader, the great Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat, and his death as a Shahid at the hands of the Israeli occupation."

Official statement made after meeting of the PLO Executive Committee, responding to charge by Farouk Kaddumi, Secretary-General of the Fatah Central Committee and Head of the PLO Political Dept. who accused PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of plotting Arafat's murder together with Israel.

"Farouk Kaddumi, [Secretary-General of the Fatah Central Committee and of the Political Department of the PLO] said at a press conference in Jordan last Sunday [July 12, 2009] that Arafat, prior to his death, had entrusted to him the protocol of a secret meeting of Abbas and Dahlan with former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and American Intelligence officers, during which they planned the assassination of Arafat and other leaders of the Palestinian resistance factions."

Nasser Al-Qidwa, Chairman, Board of Directors, Institute for the Commemoration of Arafat and former PA Foreign Minister:Al-Qidwa: [The Board of the Institute has resolved to establish a new committee to investigate the circumstances of Arafat's death.] "Personally, I am convinced – and we have spoken about this on more than one occasion. I have spoken about Israel's responsibility [for Arafat's death] in any event, due to the siege that was imposed."Interviewer: "The murder- the murder operation – was carried out against the Shahid (Martyr) [Arafat]... All the evidence proves that they [Israel] carried out an elimination or assassination operation."

Ahmad Jibril, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
"When [PA Chairman] Mahmoud Abbas came to Damascus, I asked: "What was found in the [medical] inquiry of the death of brother Arafat?" One [of the group] said: "Frankly, the French gave us the medical report, and the cause of Arafat's death was AIDS."Click here to viewNote: This information has never been released to the Palestinian public.

Bassam Abu Sharif, former adviser to Arafat: "According to the confirmed information I have, former Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz spoke to Sharon in the following manner: 'This is a chance to get rid of Yasser Arafat...' Sharon was silent for a moment, and then looked [at Mofaz and said], 'Only if it could be done in a way that the accusing finger wouldn’t be pointed at Israel.' These are the exact words.
When I found out about this, I wrote a letter to... Yasser Arafat, in which I warned him of their desire to kill him, probably by means of poison. The letter's date is clear, this is the letter [shows the letter]. The black [marking] is [the marking of] Yasser Arafat, the lines were drawn by Yasser Arafat. This is the date, June 5, 2002... The Israelis planned to kill him by poison, because of Sharon's promise to the Americans that [Arafat] will not be killed by bombing.
The source, and this is the first time I'm saying it... I saw him after the death and burial of Arafat. I asked him, and he replied that the French know about this. I think that the French hid this matter because France is a powerful country that isn't interested in igniting the area, and is interested in peace and the establishment of a country for the Palestinian nation, and reviving the topic would mean that every Palestinian would see it as his duty to avenge [the death of] Yasser Arafat."

"The President didn't suffer from any illness related to the known diseases of old age - blood pressure, diabetes, artery blockage. The President didn't suffer from any illness. The severe deterioration of his health, in this rapid manner, verifies that he was killed by poison [by Israel]. In addition to the severe thinning of his blood, which I saw with my own eyes in the hospital in Paris. Even after his death, this thinning of his blood continued."

Arafat aide: "For breakfast, he would drink milk and cornflakes. I would prepare it for him during the morning hours... The President's food always had to be checked. The same thing with lunch... The food was brought to the guests and the President together, and I used to eat half an hour to three quarters of an hour before him."

Ahmad Abdul Rahman, Arafat's Cabinet Secretary: "This issue will continue to occupy every Palestinian's mind, how Yasser Arafat became a Shahid [Martyr for Allah]. The French medical report comprises 572 pages. [The report] doesn't state that Yasser Arafat was suffering from a specific disease from which his death resulted. It said that Yasser Arafat's death didn't result from one of the known diseases.
Therefore, conclude what this means. He was exposed to some kind of poison. The poison is an [Israeli] army secret and, as you know, no one knows the poison's secret, except for the person who prepared it."

Ibrahim Mudayris, PA religious official, Ministry of Religious Affairs:
“We are absolutely sure that the Zionist government is responsible for the attempt to kill the president [Arafat]. We have no doubt that it somehow poisoned him to kill him slowly. These are the cursed apes and pigs [Jews]. It is our right to pray to Allah to cure him, and to plant poison the hearts of those pigs. Have you seen them on TV embracing each other, singing and dancing, those apes, those pigs, on the news about the president’s death.” Click to view video

Published when Arafat was sick in hospital, two weeks before his death, this cartoon shows a demonized Jew chewing through Arafat's IV line as he signals “V” for peace. This cartoon, accusing Israel of trying to kill Arafat, was published in the official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.